“Sorry for the long pause (I think longest in AMSL’s history if I’m not mistaken). I was working. Like last Saturday, when I performed at one of those concerts professional musicians are forced to attend once or twice a year. Far removed from the regular stuff—baroque, period performance in a familiar venue with familiar faces who know when to clap and when to sit silent—I ended up in some Coptic church in Richmond Hill performing Coptic music with a mix of Coptic and classical musicians. It was one of those gigs you walk into initially and think, ‘here we go, the things I do for money etc.’ Hip, professional cynicism.” (A More Splendid Life)